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Keeps booting my internal HD! Got BT on external HD

I've got BT3 installed on my external hard disk and Ubuntu on my internal HD! The problem i'm having is that when i'm booting backtrack as soon as it gets to mount part it keeps mount ubuntu and not BT3, i've disabled my harddrive in my bios BUT STILL it keeps on booting ubuntu!

i've disabled my harddrive in my bios BUT STILL it keeps on booting ubuntu!

Curious
Are u sure you made lilo -v with right permissions?

If so i've no clue whats going on.

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Yeah it is! all i've done is followed the tutorial for installing BT on a External HD! The only changes i've made is to the timing for when it detects my HD (Otherwise i get an kernel panic). I don't know what the hell is wrong! I'll like to get it sorted tho, for me and other people who might of has problems! ****ED up tho cause even if i disable the HD from loading from the BIOS it still happens! SOOOO Stupid

Well first off you don't need to disable your internal drive to boot to it. I'm assuming you have the external drive connected through USB, in which case can you boot to USB from the Boot Menu (the BIOS one)?!

If not I would try adding the boot option for BackTrack to your GRUB bootloader.

Be sensitive in choosing where you ask your question. You are likely to be ignored, or written off as a loser, if you:

* post your question to a forum where it's off topic
* post a very elementary question to a forum where advanced technical questions are expected, or vice-versa
* cross-post to too many different newsgroups
* post a personal e-mail to somebody who is neither an acquaintance of yours nor personally responsible for solving your problem

LADS! This one is really weird! i've added extra 5 seconds to the "root mount" in lilo and it works!!! Weird tho cause i gave lilo 10 seconds before and even then it detected my "root mount" Very weird tho! an extra 5 seconds and BANG it works! So weird people!